Sociology: sport & leisure books

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Media Management and Live Experience: Sports, Culture, Entertainment and Events

Media Management and Live Experience: Sports, Culture,...

Author: Alex Connock
ISBN: 9781032563657
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Global and authoritative, this textbook maps modern, live experience media, the categories that thrive on real-time...  Read More >>

Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic: The Gathering and Its Influence

Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic: The Gathering...

Author: Shelly Jones
ISBN: 9781476683164
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Since its debut in 1993, Magic the Gathering has grown to be an influential collectible card game. These essays...  Read More >>

Foul or Fair?: Ethical and Social Issues in Sports

Foul or Fair?: Ethical and Social Issues in Sports

Author: Larry Atkins
ISBN: 9781476686219
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Analyses social and ethical issues in sports in a journalistic, non-academic, entertaining manner. The book has...  Read More >>

How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team

How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports...

Author: Dr Kieran File (Kieran File is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781350044234
Format: Paperback
$49.99

While the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and...  Read More >>

Coming Home: My Amazin' Life with the New York Mets

Coming Home: My Amazin' Life with the New York Mets...

Author: Cleon Jones ,  Gary Kaschak
ISBN: 9781637272916
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"""This book is the autobiography of former New York Mets star Cleon Jones""--"  Read More >>

Searching in St. Andrews

Searching in St. Andrews

Author: Sean Zak
ISBN: 9781637273326
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A compelling journey through the heart and soul of golf, bringing the sport's history and the current state of the...  Read More >>

Surfing Spaces

Surfing Spaces

Author: Jon Anderson
ISBN: 9781032301761
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Space, Mobility, and Crisis in Mega-Event Organisation: Tokyo Olympics 2020's Atmospheric Irradiations

Space, Mobility, and Crisis in Mega-Event Organisation:...

Author: Rodanthi Tzanelli (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9781032323428
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Taking the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a case study, Tzanelli explores mega-event crisis and risk management...  Read More >>

Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic

Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic

Author: Michael J. Gennaro (Seminole State College of Florida, USA) ,  Brian M. McGowan (Grambling State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032340562
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship...  Read More >>

Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments

Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments...

Author: Jim Cherrington (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ,  Jack Black (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032125428
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book considers the ability of individuals and communities to maintain healthy relationships with their surroundings...  Read More >>

Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development and Peace

Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development...

Author: Mitchell McSweeney (York University, Canada) ,  Per Svensson (Louisiana State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032080628
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship...  Read More >>

Motherhood and Sport: Collective Stories of Identity and Difference

Motherhood and Sport: Collective Stories of Identity...

Author: Lucy Spowart (University of Plymouth, UK) ,  Kerry R. McGannon (Laurentian University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367691868
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, athletes have demonstrated...  Read More >>

Leisure and Wellbeing

Leisure and Wellbeing

Author: Louise Mansfield (Brunel University London, UK) ,  Norma Daykin
ISBN: 9781032304144
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical and methodological contributions critically exploring...  Read More >>

Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

Author: Brett Lashua (University College London, UK) ,  Simon Baker (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781032285801
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often...  Read More >>

The Messiness of Leisure Research: Explorations of Research Processes

The Messiness of Leisure Research: Explorations of Research...

Author: Felice Yuen ,  Karen Gallant
ISBN: 9781032315652
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book illustrates tensions, absences, and unresolved challenges experienced in research – experiences that are...  Read More >>

Interrelationships Between Sport and the Arts

Interrelationships Between Sport and the Arts

Author: Jonathan Long (Leeds Beckett University, UK) ,  Doug Sandle (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032350400
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate...  Read More >>

Evaluation in Sport and Leisure

Evaluation in Sport and Leisure

Author: Andrew Adams (Bournemouth University, UK) ,  Kevin Harris (Hartpury University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032322629
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book presents a critical assessment of evaluation theory and practice in sport and leisure. It considers established...  Read More >>

What Are the Olympics For?

What Are the Olympics For?

Author: Jules Boykoff (Pacific University)
ISBN: 9781529230284
Format: Paperback
$19.99

While attention is on Olympic triumphs and tribulations, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply...  Read More >>

Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-changing Female Athletes

Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-changing Female Athletes...

Author: Laken Litman ,  Stephen Cannella
ISBN: 9780789345134
Format: Hardback
$45.00

Now available at a promotional price!  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Sport, Leisure, and Social Justice

Routledge Handbook of Sport, Leisure, and Social Justice...

Author: Stefan Lawrence (Leeds Beckett University, UK) ,  Joanne Hill (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
ISBN: 9781032485607
Format: Hardback
$431.00

This is the first book to explore in breadth and in depth the complex intersections between sport, leisure and social...  Read More >>

Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Applied Linguistic Perspective

Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Applied...

Author: Abigail Boucher ,  Marcello Giovanelli
ISBN: 9783031527524
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative...  Read More >>

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